8o LAND SETTLEMENT & EDUCATION 



will be fully qualified ; and existing teachers who 

 have a natural turn for this work should have 

 every facility granted to them for developing it by 

 attending holiday and Saturday classes. 



As to the cost of introducing manual training 

 into the curriculum, experience has already shown 

 us that an expensive equipment is not necessary : 

 special manual instruction rooms may be the ideal 

 to aim at, but they are not indispensable. The 

 County of Cambridge is a good example of the kind 

 of work that can be done in the way of giving 

 excellent homecraft instruction in every single 

 elementary school and by a member of the ordinary 

 school staff. 



In comparison with the results achieved, the cost 

 is insignificant. In the Lindsey division of Lincoln- 

 shire there are now one hundred schools which give 

 up three afternoons a week to manual instruction. 

 The total cost of equipment has onl}/' averaged 

 about £5 per school and the extra annual cost to 

 the ratepayer only about £2 per school. It would be 

 difiicult to find a case in which public money is 

 spent more economically and to greater advantage 

 to the Nation. 



Again, education must be continued to a later 

 stage than at present if we are to arrive at that 

 improved standard in our citizens which is necessary 

 if we are to compete successfully with such highly 

 organised and highly educated peoples as those of 

 Germany and America. 



Up to this point we are still entitled to speak 

 of our system of education, but now we come to 

 a stage where system ends and chaos begins. For 



